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diff --git a/75148-0.txt b/75148-0.txt index 6feefd5..b6204f3 100644 --- a/75148-0.txt +++ b/75148-0.txt @@ -1,10 +1,6 @@ - *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75148 *** - - - Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ @@ -220,6 +216,8 @@ is simple and may be limited to laws safeguarding birds from harm, to killing off as many as possible of the English sparrows, and to seeing that cats are not allowed any undue opportunity for harming them. +[Illustration: Fig. 1. Blue Bird Feeding Young.] + The boy or girl who puts up boxes for the birds to nest in, supplies them with drinking and bathing places, and provides food for those species which remain in winter, is certain of an unfailing source of @@ -227,8 +225,6 @@ pleasure, which can never be known to any one who pursues them with airgun and stones, or simply ignores their presence. The chances are that the bird-loving boy or girl will make the better citizen. -[Illustration: Fig. 1. Blue Bird Feeding Young.] - @@ -249,6 +245,8 @@ former numbers. Tree swallows take to the boxes, but if an occasion arises where they have a choice between the box and a natural cavity, generally the latter will be selected. +[Illustration: Fig. 2. Blue Bird Entering Box.] + Chickadees and flickers take to the home-made box and, sometimes the little screech owl occupies one of the man-made residences. @@ -274,8 +272,6 @@ In the Mississippi Valley it winters as far north as Southern Illinois, and in the East as far as Pennsylvania. It is one of the earliest northern migrants and everywhere is hailed as a harbinger of spring. -[Illustration: Fig. 2. Blue Bird Entering Box.] - [Illustration: Fig. 3. Chickadee Feeding.] Domestic in habits, it frequents orchards and gardens and builds close @@ -377,7 +373,7 @@ inches of the other, where the cut is met by a right-angle cut from the side. After this an entrance hole of the required size is made through the shorter or front half. -The two halves are hollowed out, as shown in Plate 19, so as to form +The two halves are hollowed out, as shown in Plate 19A, so as to form a cylindrical cavity about three and one-half inches in diameter and ten inches deep; then the two halves are placed together and held with screws or bolts. A similar Bird Home is made by boring an auger hole @@ -650,6 +646,8 @@ winners. [Illustration: Fig. 9. A Few Houses Made in 1917.] +[Illustration: Fig. 10. A Winner.] + The prizes are usually tools, good books, and thrift stamps, and this annual event is looked forward to with keen anticipation by the youthful designers. @@ -698,8 +696,6 @@ trap shown in the same plate will be found efficient. Spikes may be driven in part way about a pole so that the row of heads prevent the cats getting by. -[Illustration: Fig. 10. A Winner.] - [Illustration: Fig. 11. Children Starting Out to Put Up Houses.] English Sparrows are another sworn enemy of our song birds and they @@ -727,6 +723,8 @@ required, then plan your work so as to cut your board with as little waste as possible. Take pieces of a similar width and get them out in one long piece from your board. +[Illustration: Fig. 12. Putting Up a House.] + Plane one edge of the board straight and smooth and call this the working edge, or edge from which all measurements are to be taken. Square one end square with the working edge and the surface. Measure @@ -743,8 +741,6 @@ carefully with your ruler. Now saw and plane to your line. Treat each piece in this manner and mark with its proper letter, to be ready for assembling later. -[Illustration: Fig. 12. Putting Up a House.] - We shall consider, for illustration, that we are making the Blue Bird House shown in Plate 3. We have our pieces all cut out and numbered and shall now cut the shape of pieces A, which are the front and rear of @@ -881,7 +877,7 @@ Fig. 4 is one type of rustic feeder which has proven popular. The following birds have been attracted about local feeders: Chickadees, Fig. 3, nuthatches, woodpeckers, juncos, and even the wary -jay, Fig. 13. Figure 14 shows a simple form of feeding shelf with sides +jay. Figure 13 shows a simple form of feeding shelf with sides of glass. A hairy woodpecker can be seen just below the upper box. Corn, suet, scraps of meat, crumbs from the table, pieces of doughnut, @@ -903,260 +899,81 @@ bird friends. DESIGNS FOR BIRD HOUSES -[Illustration: - - _PLATE 1._ - -_BLUE BIRD HOUSE_ - - 2” - 10” - ¾” - 2½” - _Covered with Cedar bark_ - _left side_ - _Top hinged with 1” butt hinges_ - 5½” 5½” - 1¼” 1¼” - 1½” - C - _Two of these_] - -[Illustration: - - _PLATE 2._ - -_BLUE BIRD HOUSE._] - -[Illustration: - - _PLATE 3._ - -_BLUE BIRD HOUSE_] - -[Illustration: - - _PLATE 4._ - -_BLUE BIRD HOUSE_ - - A - 6¼” - 2” - 4½” - _1½” diam._ - 2¾” - _Two of these_ - - B - 4½” - _¼” venting holes_ - _Two of these_ - 6” - - C - 5½” - 9½” - - D - 5” - E - 5½” - 5” - BOTTOM - _⅛” draining holes_ +[Illustration: _PLATE 1._ BLUE BIRD HOUSE] - F - 2” - 1” - 4”] +[Illustration: _PLATE 2._ BLUE BIRD HOUSE] -[Illustration: +[Illustration: _PLATE 3._ BLUE BIRD HOUSE] - _PLATE 5._ +[Illustration: _PLATE 4._ BLUE BIRD HOUSE] -_BLUE BIRD HOUSE_] +[Illustration: _PLATE 5._ BLUE BIRD HOUSE] -[Illustration: +[Illustration: _PLATE 6._ BOX FOR ROBINS] - _PLATE 6._ +[Illustration: _PLATE 7._ BOX FOR ROBINS] -_BOX FOR ROBINS._] +[Illustration: _PLATE 8._ BOX FOR WRENS] -[Illustration: +[Illustration: _PLATE 9._ DOUBLE WREN HOUSE] - _PLATE 7._ +[Illustration: _PLATE 10._ DOWNY WOODPECKER HOUSE] -_BOX FOR ROBINS._] +[Illustration: _PLATE 11._ BOX FOR HAIRY WOODPECKERS] -[Illustration: +[Illustration: _PLATE 12._ FLICKER HOUSE] - _PLATE 8._ +[Illustration: _PLATE 13._ WOODPECKER HOUSE] -_BOX FOR WRENS._] +[Illustration: _PLATE 14._ NUTHATCH HOUSE] -[Illustration: +[Illustration: _PLATE 15._ NUTHATCH HOUSE] - _PLATE 9._ +[Illustration: _PLATE 16._ BOX FOR TREE SWALLOW + (CAT PROOF)] -_DOUBLE WREN HOUSE._] +[Illustration: _PLATE 17._ TITMOUSE HOUSE] -[Illustration: +[Illustration: _PLATE 18._ CHICKADEE HOUSE] - _PLATE 10._ +[Illustration: _PLATE 19._ HOUSES FROM COMMON OBJECTS -_DOWNY WOODPECKER HOUSE._] + _Gourds._ _Tomato Can._ _Flower pot._ + _Milk can._ _Small keg._ _Small wooden box._ -[Illustration: + _Any discarded article of suitable size may be utilized for a + nesting box, those of wood being best._ - _PLATE 11._ + _Metal objects should be placed in a cool shady place as they + heat up very badly if exposed to the sun._ -_BOX FOR HAIRY WOODPECKERS._ + _Methods of keeping cats away._] - 5½” - _Edges beveled to fit inside of box._ - 6½” - 3” 5¾” F 6” - B _Rear place_ - _⅛” drainage holes_ C A - _Top edge to be beveled to fit roof_ - 1½” - 9” - A B E - 14” 11½” 7” - D F. bottom - _Box covered with cedar bark_ - 11½” - _¼” vent holes_ - 7½” 7½” 6” - C - 6” 2” - D _Nail holes for attaching to tree_ 2½” - _Two of these_ - 17” 14”] +[Illustration: _PLATE 19A._ SUGGESTED DESIGNS FOR BOXES -[Illustration: + _Completely covered with bark_ - _PLATE 12._ + _Barn roof, painted body_ -_FLICKER HOUSE._ + _Natural limb hollowed out_ - A - 8½” _Covered with cedar barn_ - 1½” A C D - _¼” ventilating holes_ - BACK. - 1” - _Two of these._ 10½” 7½” - BOTTOM - 7” - 20” _⅛” drainage holes_ - 9½” - 3½” - _Holes for attaching to tree._ 7” - 3¾” 2½” diam. C. - 1¼” 1¼” 1½” 1¾” - 2” - 9” 7” 15”] + _Cavity opened showing method of gouging and hinging_] -[Illustration: +[Illustration: _PLATE 20._ FEEDING DEVICES - _PLATE 13._ + _Drawings made from Farmer’s Bulletin, #621_ -_WOODPECKER HOUSE._] + FIG. 1 FOOD SHELF -[Illustration: + FIG. 2 FEEDING STICK - _PLATE 14._ - -_NUTHATCH HOUSE._] - -[Illustration: - - _PLATE 15._ - -_NUTHATCH HOUSE._] - -[Illustration: - - _PLATE 16._ - -_BOX FOR TREE SWALLOW._ - -(CAT PROOF)] - -[Illustration: - - _PLATE 17._ - -_TITMOUSE HOUSE._] - -[Illustration: - - _PLATE 18._ - -_CHICKADEE HOUSE._] - -[Illustration: - - _PLATE 19._ - -HOUSES FROM COMMON OBJECTS. - - _Gourds._ _Tomato Can._ _Flower pot._ - _Milk can._ _Small keg._ _Small wooden box._ - -_Any discarded article of suitable size may be utilized for a nesting -box, those of wood being best._ - -_Metal objects should be placed in a cool shady place as they heat up -very badly if exposed to the sun._ - -_Methods of keeping cats away._] - -[Illustration: - - _PLATE 19A._ - -SUGGESTED DESIGNS FOR BOXES. - - _Completely covered - with bark_ - - _Barn roof, - painted body_ - - _Natural limb - hollowed out_ - - _Cavity opened - showing method of - gouging and hinging_] - -[Illustration: - - _PLATE 20._ - -_FEEDING DEVICES._ - - _Drawings - made from - Farmer’s Bulletin, #621_ - - FIG. 1 FOOD SHELF. - - FIG. 2 FEEDING STICK. - - FIG. 3 COCOANUT LARDER. + FIG. 3 COCOANUT LARDER —_Rustic Food Shelf_— - _To be attached to tree - or side of house._ - - FIG. 4 FOOD HOUSE ON - PIVOT.] + _To be attached to tree or side of house._ + FIG. 4 FOOD HOUSE ON PIVOT] *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75148 *** |